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I’m never in my life going to do a record that’s a tribute to myself. I don’t need it.

Quincy Jones

After every war, there was a significant change in the music, and I can understand how that happened. If you participate in protecting the country, you think you can be part of it, but you come back home and it’s worse than ever.
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Change Music Thinking Understand War Worst Yourself
The process is the most beautiful part.
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Beautiful Part Process
Billy Strayhorn wrote Multicolored Blue. Billy to me is the boss of the arrangers.
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Arrangement Myself Writing
They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.
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Blind Dog Finding Food
Hell, nobody knows where jazz is going to go. There may be a kid right now in Chitlin Switch, Georgia, who is going to come along and upset everybody.
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Children Come Music Upset
Count Basie practically adopted me at 13. We became closer and closer and I ended up conducting for him and Sinatra.
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Age End Myself Practice Time
Let’s not get too full of ourselves. Let’s leave space for God to come into the room.
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God Leaving Ourselves Religious Room Space
What happens when you get a big break and you haven’t prepared yourself? That becomes the biggest mistake you’ve ever made. I see it happen all the time.
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Break Mistake Preparation Time Yourself
Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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Game Play Profit
My son is a hip-hop producer.
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Job Myself Production Son
I look back and say, “This must have been somebody else.” I am not going to tell you that when I was 4, I dreamed about all of this.
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Age Dreams Myself Past Time View
We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don’t think I touched honey again for 20 years. I never wanted to see honey again.
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Myself See Steal Thinking Time Touch
When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.
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Father Hard Work Institution Mental Ourselves
All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
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Love Music Relationship Woman
China’s got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain’t right.
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People Right Unfair Yourself
A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.
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Beautiful Color Rose Song

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